5.21.08 #54

Gi Class with Joey

Joey threw some moves at us tonight, I don't think any of it is going to stick. I am trying to go through the moves in my mind and I can't really walk myself through any of them. We warmed up with some neat moves though. We warmed up with if your opponent stands up to pass your guard (with bad posture) jumping to arm guard and then if he pulled out of the arm guard go for an oomoplata sweep. The last bit of class Joey paired us up for a six minute round of rolling.

Joey took my partner, Cal, and gave him to Monstah and paired me up with Dee. I didn't think it was a very fair match up, this time I was the "big guy" and it sucks being the little guy - I know. Joey told me to make sure I submit the white belt - not a very fair match up for an undersized white belt. Dee put up a good fight, but my size was hard for him to deal with I took mount and kept it. I tried to work the gi cross choke and was having a hard time sinking the second hand, but I kept at it. In fact, I have a nice blister from rubbing my right hand raw trying to get in deep into his collar. Since Dee was defending the choke so strong, I took the s mount arm bar for the sub. We started our second roll and Dee did a nice job of keeping me in half guard, I smashed for a bit and passed and Dee was again defending well and put me back into half guard. I was committed this time to getting the cross choke. I went back at him once I mounted, Dee again was stuffing the choke. I went for the arm bar attack again and Dee defended but I was able to get the triangle mount and finished with the triangle choke just before Joey called time. I thought the way Joey ended class was great - I enjoyed the timed match.